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Quotes About Souls

Were our affections filled, taken up, and possessed with these things . . . what access could sin, with its painted pleasures, with its sugared poisons, with its envenomed baits, have unto our souls?
~ John Owen
testify by what means he would subdue the souls and consciences of men unto the obedience of Christ and the gospel, and by what means he would maintain his kingdom in the world. Now, this was not by force and might, by external power or armies, but by the preaching of the word, whereof the tongue is the only instrument. And the outward sign of this gift, in tongues of fire, evidenced the light and efficacy wherewith the Holy Ghost designed to accompany the dispensation of the gospel.
~ John Owen
Spiritually sick men cannot sweat out their distemper with working. But this is the way of men who deceive their own souls; as we shall see afterward.
~ John Owen
That it is the Holy Spirit who teacheth us to understand aright the mind and will of God in the Scripture; without whose aid and assistance we can never do so usefully nor profitably unto our own souls.
~ John Owen
and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
~ John Steinbeck
The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.
~ John Steinbeck
Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots.
~ John Steinbeck
Maybe, kneeling down to atoms, they're becoming atom-sized in their souls. Maybe a specialist is only a coward, afraid to look out of his little cage. And think what any specialist misses--the whole world over his fence.
~ John Steinbeck
And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.
~ John Steinbeck
Maybe the knowledge is too great and maybe men are growing too small. Maybe, kneeling down to atoms, they're becoming atom-sized in their souls. Maybe a specialist is only a coward, afraid to look out of his little cage. And think what any specialist misses--the whole world over his fence.
~ John Steinbeck
in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
~ John Steinbeck
Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.
~ John Steinbeck
They collected souls as they collected jewels.
~ John Steinbeck
and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. The Grapes Of Wrath
~ John Steinbeck
Maybe the knowledge is too great and maybe men are growing too small," said Lee. "Maybe, kneeling down to atoms, they're becoming atomsized in their souls. Maybe a specialist is only a coward, afraid to look out of his little cage. And think what any specialist misses—the whole world over his fence.
~ John Steinbeck
Ruhlar?nda yumru yumru gazap üzümleri oluÅŸuyor,büyüyor,a??rla??yor,baÄŸbozumuna haz?rlan?yor
~ John Steinbeck
as souls must cry when they awaken in tiny babies and find themselves far from heaven
~ John Updike
Maybe that's why I'd been chosen to become the first female Reaper in history. I think the boys had been losing too many souls.
~ Tish Thawer, Raven's Breath
With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Fear betrays unworthy souls.
~ Virgil
How I suffered from the position in which careless Nature placed us, when it instituted the separation of bodies from each other, and forgot to provide for the interpenetration of souls!
~ Marcel Proust
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Our joy is to touch, and conquer souls, and this is the one prize which can bring us a true compensation.
~ Maria Montessori
People are a chain of souls, sometimes so entangled, that they forget who, where they have to go, to be home.
~ Unknown